Reliability and Complexity.
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People (including myself) constantly note that Macs and other non-PC designs are much more reliable than Wintel PCs.
All theology aside, there is a good reason for that; the other designs don't have to cope with the odd possibility that someone will try to install a twenty year old piece of hardware or a 15 year old piece of software on it - or more likely, a brand new piece of hardware that still uses twenty year old design guidelines.
The PC's ability to accept that vast array of cheap hardware is it's greatest strength but is also the biggest obstacle to reliability and performance the PC has.
Rendezvous basically allows all "nearby" copies of Hydra to find each other without any intervention from the users. So, it saves a config step and, especially with wireless networking, becomes a very convenient way to set up networks in general.
If you're really confused about what Rendezvous is, try substituting the words "Universal Plug and Play" or "Zero-conf networking" for Rendezvous and see if it helps...
Uh... I'm certainly glad I no longer have to hang up my modem so I can hotsync; and that neither the pda nor the scanner conflict with my mouse anymore, either....
global warming *will* increase snowfall in places like the NE USA - because the warmer air can carry more moisture. When that warmer, wetter, air hits a cold mass - that's when you get the heavy snow storms like we had this year.
Note that I am *NOT* claiming that this years storms were caused by global warming...
I went to Radio Shack, bought a pack of "Jumbo Red" LEDs, along with some resistors, went to the dollar store and bought a couple AA flashlights, threw out the bulbs and replaced them with the LEDs.
Why? Because you don't want a bright white light at a telescope at night, but red LEDs are perfect - they illuminate the scene without ruining your night vision.
In my experience, trust in management can only accrue slowly over many years, but management can burn up that trust in a few months. When the staff no longer trusts the management - that's why morale collapses; and unless you replace most or all of the management, it will not recover for many years.
SCCS was before CVS, but CVS is really just a front end to SCCS' competitor, RCS. If you dig a little, the "cvs admin" commands are just passed thru to the underlying RCS.
I've been a long time EMACS bigot, but even I have to admit that it's time to stop tarting the old girl up and let her have a graceful retirement. Newer editors offer everything EMACS does, and more gracefully.
I don't remember that Soyuz 5
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carried 25 tons of cargo with it into space.
Ah, yes. Nothing like comparing Apples to Oranges.
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iSCSI for Mac OS X?
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Raw bit rates don't control data rates. Little things like latency, overhead of the protocol, etc., etc..
Look at Firewire 1.0 vs USB 2.0 - 2.0 has the higher bit rate, but even regular Firewire will give you better throughput.
As some writing SRP drivers for a living - iSCSI is a protocol that allows you to send SCSI commands between to machines linked by TCP/IP. It doesn't "bridge" IP and SCSI - it's not like you can use it to ping your hard drive.
The intent of iSCSI is to allow people to build SANs without having to shell out actual money for a fibre channel installation.
Sure, if Fink was a single app it should be in/usr/local. But it's not. Fink is a package manager that put all software it manages in one place, isolated from the standard OS X directories. That means that Fink users don't have to worry about trashing OS X with non-standard libraries and don't have to worry about software update trashing their copy of the Gimp by installing an incompatible piece of code.
It also means that you can safely uninstall every fink package you ever compiled by typing "rm -rf/sw".
They did create a NEO monitoring program. The problem is that it's run by the UN, and the asteroids have gotten quite adept at avoiding the inspectors.
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People (including myself) constantly note that Macs and other non-PC designs are much more reliable than Wintel PCs.
All theology aside, there is a good reason for that; the other designs don't have to cope with the odd possibility that someone will try to install a twenty year old piece of hardware or a 15 year old piece of software on it - or more likely, a brand new piece of hardware that still uses twenty year old design guidelines.
The PC's ability to accept that vast array of cheap hardware is it's greatest strength but is also the biggest obstacle to reliability and performance the PC has.
The 10% rule comes from Judaism - it's quite a bit older than Christianity.
Suddenly, my iChat windows are full of "Message from Llama69: Hi! I'm from Hong Kong! What are you wearing?"
The whole point of Rendezvous is to support creating small short-lived networks. Why would you want a global presence for such a thing?
Rendezvous basically allows all "nearby" copies of Hydra to find each other without any intervention from the users. So, it saves a config step and, especially with wireless networking, becomes a very convenient way to set up networks in general.
If you're really confused about what Rendezvous is, try substituting the words "Universal Plug and Play" or "Zero-conf networking" for Rendezvous and see if it helps...
Uh... I'm certainly glad I no longer have to hang up my modem so I can hotsync; and that neither the pda nor the scanner conflict with my mouse anymore, either....
So, you're saying that Hydra should support smileys, then?
Well, get started then. Let us know when you're ready to release it.
Shutters down your spine? Talk about opening a window into your soul!
global warming *will* increase snowfall in places like the NE USA - because the warmer air can carry more moisture. When that warmer, wetter, air hits a cold mass - that's when you get the heavy snow storms like we had this year.
Note that I am *NOT* claiming that this years storms were caused by global warming...
I went to Radio Shack, bought a pack of "Jumbo Red" LEDs, along with some resistors, went to the dollar store and bought a couple AA flashlights, threw out the bulbs and replaced them with the LEDs.
Why? Because you don't want a bright white light at a telescope at night, but red LEDs are perfect - they illuminate the scene without ruining your night vision.
Leave.
In my experience, trust in management can only accrue slowly over many years, but management can burn up that trust in a few months. When the staff no longer trusts the management - that's why morale collapses; and unless you replace most or all of the management, it will not recover for many years.
I remember typing that in. I also remember typing the entire hex dump of speedscript, and wondering why - because I didn't have a printer....
When they pulled database management out of StarOffice, that was the last straw. The same lack exists in OS X, as well.
But not many people seem to care. I've adjusted to the idea that I have to use spreadsheets instead of SQL to manage my data...
Not quite,
SCCS was before CVS, but CVS is really just a front end to SCCS' competitor, RCS. If you dig a little, the "cvs admin" commands are just passed thru to the underlying RCS.
Going to war would be in compliance with resolution 1441.
I've been a long time EMACS bigot, but even I have to admit that it's time to stop tarting the old girl up and let her have a graceful retirement. Newer editors offer everything EMACS does, and more gracefully.
carried 25 tons of cargo with it into space.
Raw bit rates don't control data rates. Little things like latency, overhead of the protocol, etc., etc..
Look at Firewire 1.0 vs USB 2.0 - 2.0 has the higher bit rate, but even regular Firewire will give you better throughput.
Set up your PC to share the iSCSI drives and use windows file sharing to get to them.
Not the fastest solution, but it will work around the issue.
I'm sorry, but, focusing on the social impact of technology made them different? I thought that was the whole point of Wired!
Of course, I stopped reading Wired years ago when I realized that I was apparently too old to appreciate the crazy page layouts they used.
As some writing SRP drivers for a living - iSCSI is a protocol that allows you to send SCSI commands between to machines linked by TCP/IP. It doesn't "bridge" IP and SCSI - it's not like you can use it to ping your hard drive.
The intent of iSCSI is to allow people to build SANs without having to shell out actual money for a fibre channel installation.
Anti-heros were where it was at for comic books in the 90s; now it seems hollywood is fixated on the same concept.
Sure, if Fink was a single app it should be in /usr/local. But it's not. Fink is a package manager that put all software it manages in one place, isolated from the standard OS X directories. That means that Fink users don't have to worry about trashing OS X with non-standard libraries and don't have to worry about software update trashing their copy of the Gimp by installing an incompatible piece of code.
/sw".
It also means that you can safely uninstall every fink package you ever compiled by typing "rm -rf
What's so bad about this?
They did create a NEO monitoring program. The problem is that it's run by the UN, and the asteroids have gotten quite adept at avoiding the inspectors.
I LIVE.